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It's just the level of compression that they use. The more compressed a file is, the less bandwidth is uses. The less bandwidth it uses, the cheaper is it to provide a service. Most viewers won't care / won't notice the difference.
Also, if you view downloaded stuff from iPlayer that will be a different (less compressed) format again. IIRC They get around the bandwidth cost of the download (not streaming) service by using a P2P system (Could be wrong on that though)
Also, if you view downloaded stuff from iPlayer that will be a different (less compressed) format again. IIRC They get around the bandwidth cost of the download (not streaming) service by using a P2P system (Could be wrong on that though)
Interesting to hear what you say about the subtitles. I'm just having a look now, where do you turn them on for the live stream, I can't see anything.
With regards to the delay, subtitles are normally produced using voice recognition, so that delay is down to the processing times involved. There are some details here if you are interested: http://www.redbeemedia.com/html/subtitling.html
With regards to the delay, subtitles are normally produced using voice recognition, so that delay is down to the processing times involved. There are some details here if you are interested: http://www.redbeemedia.com/html/subtitling.html
They don't work for the iplayer live stream whereas if you were watching it on regular TV broadcast it would have subs. I meant that when I said 'live' not as in live like the news or a sports broadcast. I know what you mean about those subtitles using speech recognition!
If you're looking for subtitles on a 'catch up' program sometimes it takes a while longer for them to add the subtitles. Not sure why.
Here is the official line on the delayed iplayer subtitles http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/accessi... . Come to think of it I haven't seen the problem for a few weeks so maybe they have or are in the process of fixing it already.
If you're looking for subtitles on a 'catch up' program sometimes it takes a while longer for them to add the subtitles. Not sure why.
Here is the official line on the delayed iplayer subtitles http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/accessi... . Come to think of it I haven't seen the problem for a few weeks so maybe they have or are in the process of fixing it already.
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